Wall Of Sound
Mark Eitzel and Peter Buck just can’t seem to get enough of one another. After releasing and touring for Eitzel’s West, the duo has reunited in Seattle, where they’re spending this week writing material for another album. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Eitzel and Buck have also set aside time for another [...]
By Bob Gulla
Guitar Magazine
On leave from his band of 17 years, Peter Buck flexes his talents with Mark Eitzel, Tuatara, and Minus 5.
“When I was a teenager, the only time you heard about a rock musician in the news was when he either got arrested or died,” says Peter Buck. “Now there’s a whole [...]
Review of It Crawled From The South
By Brett Milano
Boston Phoenix
Does anybody really care that R.E.M. performed a cover version of the Swinging Blue Jeans’ “Hippy Hippy Shake” on October 4, 1981? Or that the band billed itself during some secret mid-’80s club gigs as “Adolf & the Casuals featuring Raoul”? Or that their 1991 album [...]
Mr. Showbiz
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills has signed a deal to compose the score for the upcoming film A Cool, Dry Place, and his band has agreed to write and record one new song for the film’s soundtrack. This is the first time the Grammy-winning group has attempted to write original material for a feature film, [...]